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Islamic Academy of Coventry

Sīrah of Muḥammad

Part 2 - The Lineage of the Rasūlullāh (II)

Maulānā Ebrahim Noor


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Part 2 - The Lineage of the Rasūlullāh (II)1st Edition – 2018

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Contents Introduction .......................................................................................... 5

The Family Tree of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib .................................................. 7

The Tribe of Jurhūm ............................................................................ 8

The Ḥatīm.......................................................................................... 9

The Jurhūm take control of Makkah ............................................. 9

The hiding of the Well ................................................................... 10

The Well of Zamzam .......................................................................... 11

The Well is found ........................................................................... 13

The Journey to Shām ..................................................................... 14

The Sign ........................................................................................... 15

The Oath of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib ............................................................. 18

The Parents of Rasūlullāh ............................................... 20

ꜤAbdullāh ......................................................................................... 20

Āminah ............................................................................................ 20

Family tree of Rasūlullāh parents ................................. 22

The death of ꜤAbdullāh .................................................................. 24

The People of the Elephant ............................................................... 26

Abraha.............................................................................................. 27

The Cathedral ................................................................................. 27


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The March to Makkah ................................................................... 28

ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs advice ................................................................ 29

The Attack ....................................................................................... 30

The Retreat...................................................................................... 31

ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs Family .................................................................... 32

The paternal uncles of Rasūlullāh ............................. 32

The paternal aunts of Rasūlullāh .............................. 36

Summary ............................................................................................. 37


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Introduction I begin in the name of Allāh Lord of the Worlds, and sending Peace & Salutations on our beloved Rasūlullāh . In the last booklet I talked about the ancestry of Rasūlullāh and how his lineage goes all the way back to Ibrāhīm . Allāh had commanded Ibrāhīm to bring his wife Hājar and son IsmāꜤīl to the land of Arabia. The family of IsmāꜤīl then settled in and around the Valley of Makkah. I then went into further detail about the progeny of IsmāꜤīl and talked specifically about how the tribe of Quraysh came into power in Makkah. The tribe of KhuzāꜤah had taken control of Makkah after the tribe of Jurhūm had left. Hulayl who was the chief of the KhuzāꜤah, had married his daughter to Qusayy who was from the tribe of the Quraysh. After the death of Hulayl, a power struggle took place which resulted in Qusayy taking control of Makkah. Qusayy brought in more members of his family & tribe to come and live in Makkah. So this is how the Quraysh, the direct ancestors of Rasūlullāh settled in Makkah.


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After Qusayy passed away, his son ꜤAbd al-Dār came into power but another one of his sons’ ꜤAbd Manāf was more suited for the role. Eventually the tribal responsibilities were divided between the families of the 2 brothers. ꜤAbd Manāf had a son called Hāshim who married a woman from Yathrib called Salma. Together they had a son who they named Shaybah. On one of Hāshim’s trade journeys, he passed away in Gaza leaving behind his son in Yathrib. Hāshim’s brother Muṭṭalib, then went to Yathrib to bring his nephew Shaybah back to Makkah as he had heard good things about him. Salma wanted her son to stay with her but Muṭṭalib managed to convince her and brought Shaybah to Makkah. Muṭṭalib & Shaybah rode into the city, with the nephew sitting behind his uncle. Upon seeing this child in a dishevelled state, people called him ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib, the slave of Muṭṭalib when in fact he was his nephew. This name stuck with him and from that day forth, Shaybah was known as ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib. In this booklet, I will complete the discussion on the lineage of Rasūlullāh .


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The Family Tree of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib Let’s have a quick recap of the lineage of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs’, real name was Shaybah, he was the son of Hāshim who was the son of ꜤAbd Manāf. He was the son of Qusayy, son of Kilāb, son of Murrah, son of Lu’ay, son of Ghālib, son of Fiḥr who was also known as Quraysh. These are the direct forefathers of Rasūlullāh .


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The Tribe of Jurhūm Let’s go back to the time when Ibrāhīm had brought his wife Hājar & son IsmāꜤīl to Makkah. The Tribe of Jurhūm originated from Yemen. Due to a famine at the time, they had left Yemen looking for a place to settle. It so happened that they met IsmāꜤīl and his mother near the well of Zamzam. The tribe of Jurhūm decided to settle there and after some time Ismā῾īl also married a girl from their tribe.


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The Ḥatīm According to some sources, IsmāꜤīl passed away at the age of 130 and was buried near his mother in the Ḥatīm. The Ḥatīm is the crescent shaped walled area on the side of the KaꜤbah, as you can see in this old photograph. The area is counted as being inside the KaꜤbah.

The Jurhūm take control of Makkah Sometime after IsmāꜤīl passed away, there was disagreement between his descendants, the Banū IsmāꜤīl and the Jurhūm. The Jurhūm now came into power in Makkah. They started to oppress the people, to the extent that the Banu Ismā῾īl moved to the outskirts of Makkah.


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The hiding of the Well The Jurhūm continued in their oppression and desecration of the House of Allāh until all of the Arabian tribes stood up to challenge them. The Jurhūm had to leave Makkah in a hurry but before they went, they took all of the precious items which were inside the KaꜤbah and buried them inside the well of Zamzam. They then buried the well of Zamzam and completely levelled the ground so no one could tell where the well had been. After the Jurhūm left, the descendants of IsmāꜤīl moved back to Makkah but the well of Zamzam was now lost. It stayed this way until ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib became the chief of the Quraysh.


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The Well of Zamzam In the book Manifestations of the Prophets Muḥammad’s Beauty by our dear teacher, Shaykh Al-Ḥadīth Maulānā Yusuf Motala Saheb, an incident is mentioned in great detail which is narrated by ꜤAlī . He mentions that one day ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was resting (meaning sleeping) in the Ḥatīm and someone arrived (in his dream) and said to him “Iḥfir Ṭībah”, dig up Ṭībah,

احفر طيبة ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib asked him “What is Ṭībah?” but the man went away without answering. The following day ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was resting in the same place again when the same person came and said “Iḥfir Barrah”.

احفربره ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib again asked the person, “What is Barrah?” but again he went away without answering. On the third day, again ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was resting and the same thing happened, the man came and said to him “Iḥfir Maḍnūnah”, dig up Maḍnūnah.


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احفر المضنونة ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib asked him, “What is Maḍnūnah”, the person again went away without answering. On the fourth day, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was once again resting. The man came and this time he said “Iḥfir Zamzam”, dig up Zamzam!

احفر زمزم ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib asked him, “What is Zamzam?” The man said, that which never dries up! That whose water will never decrease! It will quench the thirst of the biggest of throngs of pilgrims. The man also said, that it is located at a place where you will see a crow pecking at a place of blood and droppings and where there is an ant burrow.


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The Well is found As soon as this person in ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs’ dream had given clear instructions, he was convinced of the truth of his dream. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib took his only son at the time Ḥārith and picked up a mattock. He went to the place which was described in the dream and started to dig.

They kept on digging and digging until they saw the round border of the wall of the Well

of Zamzam and then it appeared before them. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib proclaimed Allāhu-

Akbar and the Quraysh realized that ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had achieved his aim of

finding the Well which had been lost for so long.

The Quraysh came to ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and said “This Well surely belongs to our father IsmāꜤīl . We have a due right in it, so realize it in our share”. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib replied “I will not do that”.


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The Journey to Shām The row between ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib & the Quraysh over the Well of Zamzam became more serious. They decided that they would appoint a soothsayer from the Banu SaꜤd who would judge between them. She lived in Shām, which is modern day Syria, so they all started to make their way through the desert on this long journey.

Shām

Makkah


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Half way through the journey, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and his companions ran out of water. They came to a point where they thought they would die of thirst. The other tribes from the Quraysh who had been travelling with them refused to give them water because they feared they would also run out.

The Sign

ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib saw what was happening and realised that they could all die very soon. He spoke to the people of his tribe and they agreed to do whatever he ordered. He told each of them to dig their own graves, as they still had the strength to do so. If any one of them dies, the others will bury him in the grave he has dug for himself. This would continue until there would only be one left. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs’ companions done as he had ordered and dug their graves. They then waited for the inevitable, which was to die of thirst.


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ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib then spoke to his tribe and said that just waiting for death without even looking for water was against logic. They should keep trying to look for water until the end, it could be that Allāh arranges water for them. He then ordered them to leave from there.

The other tribes had been observing what had been happening to ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and his companions. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib went to his camel and mounted upon it. As soon as his she-camel got up on her feet, water started to gush forth

from the place her hooves had rubbed the ground. He cried the Takbīr, Allāhu Akbar and so did his companions.

اهلل اكرب ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib got off his camel and tasted the water that had just come out of the ground. It was sweet, so he drank and his companions drank. They then gave the water to their animals and filled their water skins. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib then called the other tribes and invited them to drink the water which Allāh had blessed them with.


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The tribes had seen how Allāh had treated ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib so they asked him for forgiveness. They all said ‘Judgment has been delivered in your favour O ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib. We will never argue with you when it comes to the Well of Zamzam! Because the Lord that provided water for you through a gushing stream has also granted you the well of Zamzam. Return to your good service of providing drink’. After this incident, all of the tribes returned to Makkah.

Upon their return, they started to clean out the Well of Zamzam and found 2 golden idols in the shape of a deer. All of the treasures which the tribe of Jurhūm had hidden inside the Well were now found including some plated swords and armour. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib placed the deer shaped idols in the doorway of the KaꜤbah and hung the plated swords on the doors. The KaꜤbah was also decorated with gold which had been taken out of the well. So this was the story of the Well of Zamzam. How thousands of years ago, Allāḥ had answered the supplication of Hājar and quenched her thirst and that of her child in the barren desert. To this day, thousands of year later, it continues to quench the thirst of millions of pilgrims, never decreasing, never drying up, and the dream of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was indeed a sign from Allāh.


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The Oath of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib

During the time when the Well of Zamzam was found, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had only one son, Ḥārith. He made an oath saying if Allāh blessed him with 10 sons who all grow to adulthood, then he would sacrifice one of them in Allāh’s name.

Allāh completed his wish and blessed him with 10 sons. One night ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was sleeping

in front of the KaꜤbah and he had another dream. In his dream he saw a

man saying “Oh ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib, fulfil the oath which you had made to the Lord of this house”. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib woke up and gathered his sons. He told them of the oath he had made and the dream he had seen. All of his sons said in one voice that he should fulfil the oath he had made to Allāh and he can do what he wishes. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib decided to cast lots in order to determine which son should be sacrificed. It so happened that the name of his most beloved son was drawn. And this son was ꜤAbdullāh. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib took ꜤAbdullāh by the hand and led him to the sacrificial place with a knife in hand.


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Upon seeing this, ꜤAbdullah’s sisters started to cry and one of them suggested that he draw lots between ꜤAbdullāh and 10 camels. If the camels are chosen then sacrifice them and leave our brother ꜤAbdullāh. At that time, the blood writ for a person was 10 camels. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib now started to draw lots between his son ꜤAbdullāh and the camels. Each time ꜤAbdullah’s name is drawn, he would sacrifice 10 camels. The first time ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib drew the lot, it fell upon ꜤAbdullāh, so this meant 10 camels had to be sacrificed. The lots were cast a second time, again it fell upon ꜤAbdullāh, so now it was 20. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib drew lots again and again, each time they fell upon ꜤAbdullāh. Eventually the number of camels had now reached 100. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib drew the lot once more and finally it fell upon the camels. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and all those present proclaimed the Takbīr and said Allāhu Akbar. ꜤAbdullāh’s sisters took him away and ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib sacrificed the 100 camels between the hills of As-Ṣafā and Marwah. After this incident, ꜤAbdullāh was known as ꜤAbdullāh Dhabīḥ! Therefore Rasūlullāh was also known as Ibnu Dhabiḥayn, the son of the two sacrificed ones, meaning his father ꜤAbdullāh and forefather IsmāꜤīl .


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The Parents of Rasūlullāh ꜤAbdullāh Rasūlullāh was the son of ꜤAbdullāh, the son of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib. Ḥāfiẓ Asqalāni mentions that there is complete agreement on the fact that this was his name.

عن ابن عمر عن انلبي صىل اهلل عليه وسلم 1 وعبد الرحن " عز وجل عبد اهلل سماء إل اهلل

حب األ

قال " أ

It is narrated by Ibn ꜤUmar that Rasūlullāh said,

“The most beloved names to Allāh are ꜤAbdullāh and ꜤAbdul Raḥmān”

Āminah After the incident with the camels, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib started looking for a wife for his son ꜤAbdullāh. In the well-respected tribe of Banū Zuhrah, the daughter of Wahb ibn ꜤAbd-Manāf was chosen and her name was Āminah. Āminah’s father, Wahb had been the chief of the tribe but had passed away so she was now under the guardianship of her uncle Wahīb ibn ꜤAbd-Manāf. 1 Sunan Ibn Mājah - 3728


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Wahīb also had a daughter who was of marriageable age called Hāla and when ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was arranging his son’s marriage, he asked that Hāla should be given to him in marriage. Her father Wahīb agreed. So now the father and son were marrying 2 cousin sisters. The marriage ceremonies of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib & his son ꜤAbdullāh took place at the same time. Eventually, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and Hāla would have a son, who was none other than Sayyidunā Ḥamzah . He was Rasūlullāh paternal uncle as well as his cousin from his mother’s side and they were also milk brothers because they had the same wet nurse.


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Family tree of Rasūlullāh parents The lineage of Rasūlullāh mother and father both lead to Kilāb.

Kilāb had 2 sons, Qusayy and Zuhrā. Qusayy had a son called ꜤAbd Manāf, who was the father of Hāshim who was the father of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib the father of ꜤAbdullāh.


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Kilāb’s other son, Zuhrā, also had a son called ꜤAbd Manāf who had a son called Wahb who was the father of Āminah.

ꜤAbdullāh married Āminah & ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib married Hāla.


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The death of ꜤAbdullāh ꜤAbdullāh and Āminah got married and settled in Makkah. After some time, as was the normal practice of the merchants, ꜤAbdullāh left for Shām with a trade caravan. He fell ill on the way and stopped in Yathrib. Yathrib was a city which was on the trade route between Makkah and Shām. It would play a major part later on in the life of Rasūlullāh .

When the caravan returned to Makkah, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib asked where his son ꜤAbdullāh was. The people told him that due to becoming ill, he had stopped with the Banū Najjār. The Banū Najjār were related to him from his mother’s side. Right away ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib sent his eldest son Ḥārith to Yathrib to see how ꜤAbdullāh was. Upon reaching there, Ḥārith found out that ꜤAbdullāh had already passed away. ꜤAbdullāh had been ill for one month.

Ḥārith returned to Makkah and informed ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and the family of what had happened. Everyone was grief stricken upon hearing about ꜤAbdullāh death.


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There is a difference of opinion as to the age of ꜤAbdullāh when he passed away. According to Ḥāfiẓ ꜤAlā’ī, and Ḥāfiẓ Asqalāni the correct opinion is that he was 18 years old. When ꜤAbdullāh passed away, he left behind 5 camels, some goats and one slave woman who was name was Baraka who was known as Umme Ayman.


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The People of the Elephant Before the Islamic calendar had been established, the years in Arabia were known by certain events. The year in which Rasūlullāh was born was known as the year of the Elephant. About 50 or 55 days before Rasūlullāh was born, the very famous incident of the Aṣḥābe Fīl occurred, the people of the elephant. This incident became well known in Arab History. Allāh has even mentioned it in the Qur’ān in Sūrah Al-Fīl.

ـب ٱلفيل )١( صحلم تر كيف فعل ربك بأ

أ

بابيل ا أ رسل عليهم طي

)٢( وأ لم يعل كيدهم ف تضليل

أ

يل )٤( )٣( ترم يهم بجارة مين سجياكول (٥) فجعلهم كعصف م

“Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant? (1) Has He not turned their plan into nullity? (2) And

He sent upon them flying birds in flocks, (3) Throwing upon them stones of baked clay, (4) And thus He turned them into an

eaten-up chaff. (5)”


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Abraha The emperor of Abyssinia, Najjāshi, had appointed one of his general’s Abraha as vice-regent of Yemen. Abraha had seen that all of the Arabs used to go to Makkah, to the Baitullāh for pilgrimage. The people would go to the KaꜤbah and perform Ṭawāf, circumambulation around it. Abraha wished that he could make a grand Cathedral, as he was a Christian. People could then come and visit it, instead of going to the simple KaꜤbah. The Cathedral In the capital of Yemen ṢanꜤā’, Abraha built this grand beautiful Cathedral. Now there is a difference of opinion as to what happened next. One opinion is that when the Arabs heard of this Cathedral, a person from the tribe of Kinānah defiled it and then ran away. Another opinion is that some Arab youths had lit a fire near the Cathedral, the wind carried the flames of their fire onto the Cathedral which caused it to burn down.


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The March to Makkah Abraha got very angry and made an oath that he would destroy the KaꜤbah. He got his army together and left for Makkah. His army had something which had never been seen before in the Arab lands, elephants! Some Arab tribes tried to block his way but could not stop them. One of the leaders Nufayl of the Khath’am tribe agreed to be their guide in return for sparing his life. The army now reached Ṭāif which was the home of the Banu Thaqīf. They had a temple dedicated to their God Al-Lāt and were worried that Abraha would destroy it thinking it was the KaꜤbah so they told him he still had some way to go and sent another guide to go with them. Abraha’s army stopped at a place called Muhgammis , just outside of Makkah. The animals which belonged to the Makkans used to graze there on the outskirts of the city. Abraha’s army captured all of the animals which included 200 camels belonging to ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib, the Grandfather of Rasūlullāh .


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ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs advice As the large army approached Makkah, ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib called the Quraysh together. He had the responsibility of looking after the KaꜤbah and advised them all to leave the city. He told them that no one would be able to destroy the KaꜤbah, this is Allāh’s house, and he will protect his own house. Abraha now sent a messenger calling for ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib to visit him in the camp. He sent a message saying that he did not want bloodshed, he just wanted to destroy the KaꜤbah. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib accepted his invitation and went to see Abraha. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib possessed this unique quality that anyone who saw him would be in awe of him. When Abraha saw ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib, he also became in awe of him and received him with honour and respect to the extent that Abraha couldn’t put him on the throne as his equal, but he got off his throne to sit together with him.


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The two leaders talked and ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib asked him about his camels which were in his possession. Abraha was shocked, he said that you are asking me about your camels, when the KaꜤbah is the religion of yourself and your forefathers, you have not even mentioned a word about this? ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs reply was that he was the owner of the camels, and the Lord of the KaꜤbah will protect his own house. After some silence, Abraha ordered that the camels be returned to ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib. He came back to Makkah with his camels and ordered the Quraysh to vacate the city due to the impending attack. The Attack ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib took some people with him and arrived at the doors of the KaꜤbah. They all prayed to Allāh and invoked him to protect his house, the Holy KaꜤbah. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib finished supplicating and together with his companions, they withdrew to the mountains. Abraha now marched towards the KaꜤbah with his army. His elephant which was at the front of the army refused to go towards Makkah. They


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tried everything they could to make it move, but it refused to go towards the House of Allāh. All of a sudden, small birds began to appear from the western sky.

Each of them had a small pebble in their beaks and in each of their talons. The birds dropped these pebbles on Abrahas army. The pebbles rained down on them and destroyed everything they touched. The pebbles went straight through their coats

of mail and this was how the army of Abraha was defeated. The Retreat Abrahas army now made its way back to Ṣan’ā’ defeated with many of them dying on the way. Nufayl who had been captured, managed to slip away to safety. Abraha himself caught a disease which caused blood and puss to flow from his body. One by one his body parts fell off until finally he also perished. And this was how Allāh protected his house.


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ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalibs Family The forefathers of Rasūlullāh were amongst the most intelligent people of their time. They held positions of leadership & authority and were known to be generous hosts. They were people of understanding, of good character and actions. Hence the lineage of the Rasūlullāh was the highest of them all. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had many children. Some of them embraced Islām whilst others turned away from the religion of Allāh and became staunch enemies of Rasūlullāh . The paternal uncles of Rasūlullāh ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had 12 sons in total so Rasūlullāh had 11 paternal uncles. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had a number of wives so some of his children shared the same mother and father whilst the others only had their father in common

1. Ḥārith – He was the eldest son of ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib and was with him when they discovered the Well of Zamzam. Ḥārith was also the uncle who had gone to Yathrib to enquire about ꜤAbdullāh when he had fallen ill.


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2. Quthum – He shared the same mother as Ḥārith and passed away in his childhood.

3. Zubayr – He was one of the chiefs of the Quraysh. His son

was the famous companion ꜤAbdullāh ibn Zubayr who was martyred in Ajnadayn. He also had 2 daughters, Ḍubā’a & Umm al-Ḥakam who were both companions of Rasūlullāh .

4. Ḥamzah – He was the son of Rasūlullāh

mother’s cousin, Hāla. He was known as the lion of Allāh and the lion of the Prophet. He was also the milk brother of Rasūlullāh as they shared the same wet nurse. Ḥamzah was one of the early reverts to Islām and was martyred in the battle of Uḥud. He had one daughter.

5. ꜤAbbās – He was 3 years older than Rasūlullāh and the only other uncle to have embraced Islām. He was a man of great qualities and migrated to Madīnah. He passed away during the caliphate of Uthmān in 32 AH. He had 10 sons of which 3 were Ṣaḥābah, ꜤAbdullāh, Faḍl and Quthum .

6. Ḍarār – He had the same mother as ꜤAbbās .


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7. Abū Ṭālib – He shared the same parents as Rasūlullāh father ꜤAbdullāh. Their mothers name was Fāṭimah bint ꜤAmr ibn ꜤĀ’idh. Abū Ṭālib looked after Rasūlullāh after ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib passed away and he himself passed away in the year of sorrow in Makkah.

Abu Ṭālib’s most famous son was ꜤAlī , so he was Rasūlullāh cousin as well as son in law. Other children were Ṭālib who died without embracing, ꜤAqīl, JaꜤfar, and Umm Hānī whose real name was Fākhita or Hind.

8. Abū Lahab - His real name was ꜤAbdul ꜤUzzā. As a child he

was very handsome and had a ruddy complexion, so his father called him Abu Lahab, which means father of the flame. He had 4 children, ꜤUtayba who died without embracing, ꜤUtba, MuꜤattib and Durra who all embraced. Abū Lahab’s 2 son’s ꜤUtba and ꜤUtayba were also married to Rasūlullāh daughters, Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthūm at one point. When Rasūlullāh openly invited people towards Islām, Abu Lahab commanded his 2 sons to divorce the daughters of Rasūlullāh and so they did.

9. ꜤAbd al-KaꜤba


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10. Ḥajl (Mughīrah)

11. Ghīdāq - He was known as the most generous and hospitable of the Quraysh in terms of feeding people.


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The paternal aunts of Rasūlullāh Rasūlullāh also had 6 paternal aunts

1. Ṣafiyyah - She was the sister of Ḥamzah and embraced Islām. She migrated to Madīnah and passed away during the Caliphate of ꜤUmar .

2. ꜤĀtika - She was the sister of Abū Ṭālib and ꜤAbdullāh. Some people have stated that she embraced Islam.

3. Arwā - Her son Ṭulayb was from the early migrants

and took part in the battle of Badr.

4. Umayma - She was married to Jahsh ibn Ri’ab and their daughter Zaynab married Rasūlullāh .

5. Barra - Her son Abū Salama was married to Umm

Salama who later on married Rasūlullāh .

6. Bayḍa - She was also known as Umm Al-Ḥakīm and was the maternal grandmother of ꜤUthmān .


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Summary ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was the paternal grandfather of Rasūlullāh . He had been brought to Makkah by his uncle Muṭṭalib and became the leader of the Quraysh. The Well of Zamzam had been buried for years since the tribe of Jurhūm left Makkah and ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib rediscovered it. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib had also made an oath to Allāh that he would sacrifice one of his sons if he was blessed with 10 sons who reached maturity. The lots were drawn and Rasūlullāh father ꜤAbdullāh was chosen. There was an outcry and after some deliberation, it was decided that his name would be drawn against 10 camels. Each time his name was drawn, 10 more camels were added until, 100 camels were sacrificed in his place. The parents of Rasūlullāh were ꜤAbdullāh and Āminah. On one of his trade journeys to Shām, ꜤAbdullāh fell ill and stopped in Yathrib. He passed away at the tender age of 18 and hadn’t even seen his son. So Rasūlullāh never saw his father. The year in which Rasūlullāh was born was known as the year of the elephant. Abraha who was the vice-regent of


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Yemen at the time had come to destroy the KaꜤbah. Allāh protected his house and destroyed Abrahas army. ꜤAbdul Muṭṭalib was blessed with many children, some of whom embraced Islām, whilst others did not. Many of them played a very important part in the life of Rasūlullāh and supported him on his journey. In the next booklet we shall Inshā’Allāh discuss the birth of the final Messenger, Muḥammad .

Sīrah of Muḥammad Part 2 - The Lineage of the Rasūlullāh (II)

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